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I swear the thing that ends up killing us all is some obscure bio specimen they pull from the thawing permafrost.

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Kennedy jerkin off somewhere

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 10 hours ago
[–] 474D@lemmy.world 23 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
[–] JackiesFridge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Have you SEEN what’s going on in the world?

Dunno about you, but I’m Team Worm all the way

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

better to study it since the planet is heating up. we need to know how to kill it when the billions of others thaw out.

[–] Lirton@lemmy.today 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I hope that they have flamethrowers just in case of emergency...

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Lirton@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

Gettim! They're infected!

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 10 points 7 hours ago

as someone who has collected water samples of thriving cells and failed to get them to reliably reproduce in laboratory conditions optimized for cell growth

I am shocked that the ancient frozen worm is reproducing

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Good for the worm